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Re: KLBC: question about position of suffixes

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



McArdle:
> > If I want to expand on this and say "my first
> > wife", I add the word wa'DIch after be'nal.  But
> > where does it go relative to the possessive and
> > topicalizing suffixes?  Before them, between them or
> > after them?  Is it
> >    verengan Ha'DIbaH ghaH be'nalwI''e' wa'DIch,
> >    verengan Ha'DIbaH ghaH be'nalwI' wa'DIch'e', or
> >    verengan Ha'DIbaH ghaH be'nal wa'DIchwI''e'
> > Or am I just totally out in left field here?

ter'eS BG:
>I believe the correct writing would be your second
>example: {verengan Ha'DIbaH ghaH be'nalwI' wa'DIch'e'}.

The Klingon BoP Poster has just the usage McArdle is asking about:

   tlhIngan juHqo'Daq tlhIng yoSDaq 'oH toQDuj chenmoHlu'meH Daq wa'DIch'e'
   1st Construction Site: The Kling District, Klingon Home World  (KBoP)

We have one other example of Okrand using a Type 5 noun suffix with an 
ordinal number modifying a noun in a post answering SuStel's letter about 
qep'a' wejDIch on the old MSN expert.forum list:

   qep'a' wejDIchDaq jatlhtaH tlhIngan Hol HaDwI'pu'.
   [untranslated] (11/1996)



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Voragh
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